Defense Secretary James Mattis Plan to Defeat ISIS
As readers here know, our enemies and adversaries are watching our moves, basing their own actions on what we do. They’re emboldened to act against our allies and us all over the world. This is partly based on our falling short of fully engaging against our global threats.
One of these threats is a collection of enemies with conflicting and competing interests, but a common goal. They want to eliminate western and other non-compliant cultures and governments. In place of these cultures and societies, they hope to establish a global empire that rules according to their radicalized political, murderous, holocaust, and thug worldview.
As long as they continue on despite international opposition, they have hopes that drive their continued fight. Enter Retired General James Mattis, now Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Military.com reports that Defense Secretary James Mattis has a plan to rapidly defeat ISIS. This plan calls for utilizing multiple national, international, and regional assets. This strategy calls for using multiple points of attacks from military, political, and economic corners. This is an asymmetrical warfare approach to an asymmetrical threat. The plan is secret for understandable reasons, offering President Trump with options to choose from.
The plan calls for a quick defeat for ISIS. Hopefully, this is what eventually happens. ISIS uses their battlefield gains as part of their recruiting efforts. They reach out to potential fighters and potential lone wolf attackers.
These guys won’t listen to reason as we see it. They are bent on the long-term goal of establishing their version of a global Islamic caliphate. As far “out of whack” this may seem to most outside of their part of the world, ISIS and other terrorist organizations truly believe that they’ll accomplish this.
Although they won’t listen to reason, they will understand brute strength and violence of action. They’ll also understand losing traction in other areas of influence. What’s needed is a plan that defeats them not just militarily, but also economically, politically, and in other spheres of contests for the mind and heart.
Hopefully, the Mattis plan does what’s hinted.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/02/28/mattis-gives-white-house-tentative-plan-rapid-defeat-isis.html
Category: Foreign Policy, Politics
Blitzkrieg? Look, you’re either in it to win it or you pack up and go home.
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Based on what I have seen on their videos, both training and actual operations, force on force would not last long; ISIS would get crushed. On the other side of the coin, the Iraqis and Syrians also need to have confidence and competence to deal with this.
AMEN….Sic’em General!!
KaBlam!
Get it done!
Roll over them so fast and hard that three generations later they are still trying to determine what hit them.
“We’ve backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”
— General James Mattis —
What survivors?
The one he allows to live so he can spread the word far and wide throughout the land and seas.
Yep, the only one left that wasn’t thrown in the pit and covered with pig parts and blood! The lone witness!
Only if he’s shaking in what’s left of his boots and stammering with fear.
Right. The Romans let Carthage survive. The first time.
With all three generations spending most of their time in the fetal position.
Kill everything living. Salt the Earth.
Turn it to ash.
“Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”
— General James Mattis —
The Romans did that to Carthage. Guess what happened afterwards. No Carthage and no more Punic wars with Carthaginians. But then they were ruthless and they didn’t have any whiney progtards to deal with.
Sunrise at midnight. Three of them.
I’m willing to bet no part of this plan includes giving them jobs.
Gravedigging is a job.
You should send that one to Mattis
“The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.”
General James Mattis
A lot of Mattis quotes showing up here.
Wonder why?
I’m glad someone has a plan. The previous fool couldn’t have found his ass with both hands and a mirror. He kicked the can down the road for years.
Lots of damn fools in the previous
DC clown kreweAdministration. Could you be somewhat more specific?I hope they have a foolproof plan to keep all info secure. Too many trolls left over from the last 8 years, just itching to retaliate against Trump, any way possible.
I’m so glad we finally have adult leadership in command again! The previous occupant of 1600 Penn. Ave was too worried about offending his goat fucking brothers. I can’t wait until they smoke these fuckers back to the stone age! I hope FOX has live coverage again?
Does that mean I have to get a TV and cable installed again? Crap. And my life was so good without it.
Naaaaa, they have an app for that!
Hmmm… I cranked out something like this a few months ago as part of an interim chapter.
Pull out all US/friendlies with no announcement. Broadcast a warning in all dialects, to all locations including Tehran, then set off three big nukes.
I guess that makes me a warmonger.
My suggestion was similar… give the Saudis 7 days warning: fix the problem or we nuke Medina. Then another 7 days or Mecca goes.
Hit Tehran first to show them you mean it. If nothing is done, then Medina. If nothing still, then Mecca, and still hit Mosul and al-Fallujah, and then blow both of those dams.
ISIS would be overjoyed if you nuked Tehran- they view Iran as an enemy and an apostate nation.
One thing I believe Mattis will put on the table is tapping into something the spineless Obummer administration refused to do.
Using our internet gurus to hack into and block or hack ISIS twitter accounts and pages tap phones and drain their bank accounts. Not to mention gaining signifigant intel.
Also I think he will be all about getting the word out to European Allies about all the Terrorist plans that are being hatched in their Sharia enclaves.
Hack in and transfer ALL their assets to our military budget!!
You mean there’s a chance we will decisively win a war against? Damn, I retired too soon.
Again….. augh..
When push comes to shove, they’ll call back us old farts, too, if only because they need competent people who can speak clearly and have working brains.
In order of priority, the ready reserve, stand by reserve, then retired reserve will get called up if needed. Their call up may be concurrent with each other or staggered overlapping.
The ready reserve consists of the drilling reserve (TPU/SELRES), individual mobilization augmented, and individual ready reserve. the stand by reserve consists of the active status list and the inactive status list.
The retired reserve is generally broken down by those who retired within five years, those who retired more than five years, and those who are considered disabled.
In most cases, those over 60 would not get called back unless specific MOS or other service requirement dictates their being called back.
If you’re not on military contract, the government doesn’t have statutory authority to call you back.
Depending on your age, and state of residence, you might be a member of the reserve state militia. for example,I checked Illinois’ militia law, it simply identifies able bodied personnel without placing an age or gender restriction.
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If you’re in a critical rate, as I am, the Navy doesn’t care. You’ll get called back. Already had that conversation a while back.
A couple of weeks ago, I ran into two ladies in Army BDUs. One was close to my age, and still kicking. If it’s a temporary thing, as opposed to just re-upping, it is ‘for the duration’. Not too worried.
Unless I could see a law that authorizes that, you have to have a military affiliation, either military contract or retired reserve, to be called back if you hold a critical MOS and if you’re needed. If you’re no longer on a military contract, or if you’re not in the retired reserve, I don’t see the military as calling you back up.
Those ladies may have been in the reserve, or have been called back from the retired reserve.
Being forced to serve vs. volunteering to serve – no, they cannot force over 60, retired longer than 3-5 (depending), yada, yada BUT that does not preclude the relaxing of many restrictions on who can volunteer.
There are quite a few things us old codgers could do sitting at a desk using basic skills which never go out of style to relieve others to do the literal heavy lifting. Many of us would even do it for nothing. Just report to the nearest military facility (it helps to already have a relationship with them) and find something useful to do.
Not unlike what happened on 9-11. I was being paid to conduct some trooper training, which obviously went out the window. There was nothing critical that needed doing in my section, so I helped another section call their personnel in, with all the pertinent details. Yes, what they needed was an immediate status of everyone. They left the next day. And so did I.
Nothing in this exchange involves someone volunteering to serve. The comment was that they could bring a veteran, with no military affiliation, back into the military involuntarily due to possession of a critical MOS/rate. I didn’t address the volunteer part because of that. If I did, I would’ve mentioned the volunteer for recall to active duty program that the Army has for its retirees. This is one of the things that I checked out due to my being eligible to transfer to the retired reserve. I’ve even read the restrictions related to that, like not being edible for promotion, but having the benefit of being credited with those additional active duty time. As I mentioned above, there’s a priority of mobilization, ranking from the drilling reserve down to the disabled retired reserve. The implication was that those, in every category that I mentioned above, are liable for mobilization recall during a full mobilization call up. This means that if you’re a 70 year old retiree, with the skillsets and ability to fill an active duty position during a full mobilization call up, your chances of going back on active duty are good. However, if there isn’t that much need for everyone in the above categories, not everyone would get called back. They’d first look at those with who conduct training on a regular basis over those who haven’t been in the training or medical readiness process. If nobody from the higher readiness categories, or not enough, volunteer, they start looking at the next tiers. Normally, they’d start looking for volunteers in each of the above categories and, if they don’t get volunteers, involuntary recall to active duty to fill the gap. I also mentioned the militia, as they could be activated during a total mobilization call up, which’d put those eligible for mobilization, in the above reserve categories, on active duty, cause governors to start increasing their state defense forces via volunteers from their population or muster orders to John/Jane Doe Civilian, reserve militia, as well as press many for profit organizations into service for the country, like what happened… Read more »
The PN I talked to some time back said she had processed someone who had been discharged – no continued affiliation – 10 years earlier, but got a recall letter because of her rate. And don’t think for one second such a ‘recall law’ or rule wouldn’t be enacted if it was thought necessary to do so.
What that PN 1 says is hearsay. Such an involuntary recall to active duty for a veteran has to be supported by federal statute. I haven’t found anything, in any of the Army regulations, that calls for sending out recall letters to completely discharged Soldiers. I don’t recall seeing one from the Navy equivalent when I was in the Navy.
I’ll need to see that statute, and applicable service regulation, before I’d accept that someone, completely out of the military with no military obligation, could receive a recall to active duty order. The retention NCO part of me would be interested in this, as I could leverage that in my “are you staying in?” speeches.
Now, had that individual been eligible to re-enlist, and they re-enlisted, then I wouldn’t be surprised.
If PH is a critical rate and the Navy doesn’t care, does that mean the potential exists that a certain dis-barred lawer who currently resides in Florida could be recalled to active duty?/sarc
And since he is still fairly young, would he be recalled soonest and made the LPO of those who may follow?
What’s even worse is the possibility of having to not only work with/for him, but to be a bunk mate.
Ye God, the horror behind that scenario is too much to comprehend.
No, he’s got a felooony charge against him for stalking, two arrests for violating a restraining order, and will probably go to jail. But being a disbarred lousy lawer, he’d probably try to muddle his way out of it, even invoking his fake disability claims.
I’m still serving, I wouldn’t mind taking a temporary military leave of absence from my doctoral program to take a part in this, assuming the Army falls asleep and overlooks the fact that deployment orders would put me in active duty sanctuary.
Ummm…. hello TAH community… I was just applauding the fact that I personally believe we have DoD leadership team now that wants to win decisively if called upon to do so. I retired just over a year ago but I honestly miss it. I have aches and pains everywhere but I’d sure as hell volunteer. Even to hand out towels at the gym to the ones getting ready to fight, lol.
Are you in the Army? If so, there are retiree recall opportunities if you qualify for them.
https://www.hrc.army.mil/STAFF/Retiree%20Recall
Go General (Oops, SecDef) Mad Dog Mattis! We’re all with you!
ISIS figured out the the world has no will to fight any longer. Decades of unwillingness to fight wars like wars has solidified the perpetual warfare that is standard today so regardless of actual accomplishments you can continue until you decide not the enemy.
I’m not holding my breathe that Isis will ever be defeated. The unwillingness to fight by politicians and the cowards that enable them says very clearly they’ll just be another in a long line of anti civilization groups we are stuck with forever.
Look at Obama’s strategy to fein fighting ISIS by target equipment for years rather than people to save face from collateral damage. You can’t fight or win wars like that.
“Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women”
Conan The Barbarian
The original source was reputedly a similar statement by an actual historical figure: Genghis Khan.
WTF? Conan The Barbarian is not real?
But he has all those autobiographies and documentaries of his life?
you mean (j)enghis Khan? john kerry
Kerry heard him say it. Christmas eve, Cambodia, 1968. True story.
No…kerry is (j)erkus offus
It worked for Ol’ Genghis in Afghanistan. I think it was the last time they had a functioning government. Left a hell of a lot of Mongol DNA behind too!
When ISIS is defeated I hope we have a plan what to do next. That was the problem with the Bush administration according to General Ricardo Sanchez in his book “Wiser In Battle”. Bush didn’t have a plan for after defeating Hussein.
-show me-
Don’t tell me about great plans. We have had endless great plans for sixteen years.
Defeat the enemy. Crush any resurgence. Don’t tell me about “plans”, just freakin do one. Dont telegraph it.
-show me-
You beat me to it.
Nixon had a “secret plan” in 1968. I hope Mattis’ secret plan works better than Nixon’s, and better than the plan in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Breaking News this morning:
The Iraqi Army now controls the roads out of Mosul, trapping the ISers in the city. Read the whole thing, it’s definitely worth your time.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-mosul-road-idUSKBN1683H8
The population of Mosul has dropped form 2+ million to about 750,000, per the article’s reporter, which means that most of the people who wanted to get out are either dead or fled.
Trapped, eh? Seems to me I’ve heard that song before.
“Feets, don’t fail me now”, as someone once said.
I remember walking the streets of Mosul some hot evenings…..seems like a lifetime ago. Some of the people did genuinely seem happy to have us there.
Oderint Dum Metuant
True since Roman times….
No, you can’t be called up to serve again just because of your former MOS if you are not even in the inactive ready reserves anymore (for a short-timer, that would be 8 years from the date signed up in the delayed entry program [End of Obligated Service]).
Happily working in the defense biz and getting ready to go federal. I did my time, and a lot of you did yours already too. The youngsters can go ahead and do their time now.